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I. Course Title
: Geo-informatics in Forest Resource Management
II. Course Code
: FRM 604
III. Credit Hours
: 2+1
IV. Aim of the course
Is to develop and understanding among the students on basics of geomatics and its

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Forestry–Forest Resource Management
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application for sustainable management of natural resources.
V. Theory
Unit I
Brief introduction to Remote sensing and GIS, types of remote sensing, aerial
photography, scale, process of aerial photography. Platforms, orbit and sensors,
types of sensors: ground based, air borne and space borne; geostationary satellite
and polar orbiting satellite.
Unit II
Data structure, type and model: Raster and Vector data structure, vector data
type, point, line and polygon. Data hierarchical models and overlays. Spatial analysis
of vector based and raster based data in the software. Digital elevation models,
Global positioning system and differential GPS.
Unit III
Optical, thermal and microwave remote sensing, LiDAR remote sensing. Satellite
image interpretation and recognisation elements: tone, color, texture, pattern, shape,
size and associated features.Introduction of ERDAS, Arc GIS and PolSar-Pro, ENVI
softwares, Digital image processing, image rectification, geometric corrections, Image
enhancement techniques, Digital image classification, supervised and unsupervised
classification.
Unit IV
Applications of Multispectral, Hyperspectral, thermal and microwave remote sensing.
Case studies on application of remote sensing and GIS in natural resource
management.
VI. Practical
• Spectral characteristics of vegetation, water and soil;
• Study of Topo-sheets, Forest watershed delineation using GPS, Satellite remote
sensing;
• Study of satellite imageries; Digital image interpretation, Digital image processing
in ERDAS software, image classification in ERDAS, preparation of thematic maps
in Arc GIS, Watershed delineation and clipping using ERDAS and Arc GIS.
Mapping of forest with PolSarPro software, Biomass estimation using RS
techniques.